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Dec. 26, 1939. H, 'E SMITH 2,184,852

DRAWING FILE Filed OCT.. 13, 1958 :UI vim /9 Kim-J Patented Dec. 26, 1939 UNITED sTATss .PATENT orties Application October 13; 1938, Serial No. 234,815

2 Claims. (Cl. Ll5--Z) This invention relates to drawer cabinets especially for receiving sheets of tracings and prints therefrom of usual working drawing din mensions.

This invention has utility when incorporated in section units of flat holding capacity as closed against dust accumulation.

Referring to the drawing: e

Fig. l is a front view, with parts broken away,

of an embodiment of the invention in a drawer filing cabinet;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan View of a drawer partially withdrawn from a section;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-III, Fig. 2, showing the drawer in its register positionV in the cabinet section;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view on-a reduced scale of a sheet-retaining rear overhang for the drawer.

Upright members or legs l may mount bottom member or base 2 as a support. On this support may be placed cabinet members or sections 3 in building up the sections to form a unit. These cabinet sections may be stacked in upright ver-` tical series and surmounted by a top member or cap section 4. These sections 3 adjacent their forward or front ends have projecting dowel members or tapered pins 5 on their lower or unv der sides. On their top or upper sides there are, in complementary location, recesses, openings or sockets 6 into which the tapered termini of the pins from the bottom of the next upper or higher section thereover may slide in bringing the sections into registry for assembling them into a vertical series of the stack. The sections 3 are thus directly superposed and laterally aligned as to their vertical upright sides, back and front.

These sections 3 have therealong, from adja cent the pins 5, metal strips as supporting means er guides in completing the way. These guides extend from the front opening 8 toward the back or rear 9. The front port oropening 8 at its upper side has front frame portion l0. From this frame portion lll sheet portion Il of press board or Veneer may extend rearwardly. The rear portion or back of the section 9 has groove or undercut I2 adapted to receive tongue I3 of the companion or adjacent section as the pins come into register in the sockets 6. The section or unit as thus assembled provides a pocket or receiver for a slide member or drawer. This drawer has bottom I4, rear or back I5', and front I6, with parallel sides l1 between the front and back and as adjacent the bottom.

'Ihe upper side of the pocket or receiver is fiat or flush as to the top of the drawer. The drawer has from its rear portion a forwardly eX- A slip means against the under side of the top ill Celluloid or paper.

of the pocket.4 or way for the drawer.

tending overhang of strips or ap sections 2Q in thereby providing an'eicient holding means to retain sheets, say of tracings, prints, drawings, and the like. The free edges Eli, ride against the under side of the portions l l, lll, n drawer shift- 5 lng.

The drawerback has inclined seat or beveled olf portion Z2, In this seat 22 is located fastening means effective to -anchor or hold the overhang lil with thek drawer, so that the free edge 10 2i! of this overhang may be an effective wiper or il, whether the drawer travel be inward or outwardfor full transit either way. This material' for 4the overhang may be a normal yieldable fiat 15 sheet stock adapted to hold its shape, such as When these stripsr 2D are adopted, they mayhave their free ends directed in proximity to the under side ill, il, of the tcp rectng effectiveness may be supplemented through the additional holding action attained hyl locating between the strips 2@ and relatively flush therewith, intermediate additional strip means 2li, say of paper or cardboard anchored by adhe- 25 sive or tacks with the top of the port at the upper side of the drawer. These additional strips are substantially iiush with the free ends of the tongues or strips 2li.-

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by 30' the strips to provide channelways for thestrips, 40j

said overhanging means having the free terminus portions thereof normally self-flexing to ride in said ways and coacting for fully clear uninterrupted entrance and exit of the drawer as to the entrance port. 45 2. A cabinet having a drawer receiver entrance port having a top extending therefrom, and a drawer for said port having a rear provided with -forwardly and upwardly inclined seat means at its upper edge portion, and independent spaced 50 flexible strips anchored with the seat means and directed forwardly and upwardly by said seat means to be normally flexed in riding against the under side of said top as the drawer is shifted into and outward as to the entrance port.

HAROLD E. SMITH.

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